Middle School English Department

Year 2024 – 2025

Grade 7 English
Spelling Bee List- First Round

1. Abstract: impersonal, detached

2. Absurd: ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous
3. Aggravate: to make worse, more serious, or more severe: to
intensify unpleasantly
4. Alien: differing in nature or character typically to the point
of incompatibility
5. Ally: to unite or form a connection or relation between
6. Anticipate: to give advance thought, discussion, or
treatment to
7. Audible: heard or capable of being heard
8. Authentic: worthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to
or based on fact
9. Avert: to look away
10. Caliber: degree of mental capacity or moral quality
11. Candid: marked by honest sincere expression
12. Patriotic: befitting or characteristic of a patriot
13. Inhumane: lacking pity, kindness, or mercy
14. Conform: to give the same shape, outline, or contour to:
bring into harmony or accord
15. Congregate: to collect into a group or crowd
16. Consequence: something produced by a cause or necessarily
following from a set of conditions
17. Prevention: to hold or keep back
18. Conspicuous: obvious to the eye or mind
19. Contemplate: to view or consider with continued attention:
meditate on
20. Controversial: relating to
21. Return: to go back or come back again
22. Dashing: marked by smartness especially in dress and
manners
23. Defiant: full of or showing a disposition to challenge, resist,
or fight
24. Deliberate: to think about or discuss issues and decisions
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25. Designate: to indicate and set apart for a specific purpose,
office, or duty
26. Destiny: a predetermined course of events often held to be
an irresistible power or agency
27. Diaphragm: a dividing membrane or thin partition especially
in a tube
28. Diplomatic: employing tact and conciliation especially in
situations of stress
29. Dismal: showing or causing gloom
30. Distort: to twist out of a natural, normal, or original shape
or condition
31. Distract: to draw or direct (something, such as someone's
attention) to a different object or in different directions at the
same time
32. Pleasant: having qualities that tend to give pleasure
33. Eloquent: vividly or movingly expressive or revealing
34. Eventual: taking place at an unspecified later time:
ultimately resulting
35. Excess: the state or an instance of surpassing usual, proper,
or specified limits
36. Fascinate: to command the interest of
37. Flaw: an imperfection or weakness and especially one that
detracts from the whole or hinders effectiveness
38. Operation: performance of a practical work or of something
involving the practical application of principles or processes
39. Frail: easily led into evil
40. Fugitive: moving from place to place
41. Fulfill: to bring to an end
42. Galaxy: any of the very large groups of stars and associated
matter that are found throughout the universe
43. Gesture: a movement usually of the body or limbs that
expresses or emphasizes an idea, sentiment, or attitude
44. Ghastly: terrifyingly horrible to the senses
45. Distraction: an object that directs one's attention away from
something else
46. Grotesque: a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful
or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with
foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into
absurdity, ugliness, or caricature

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47. Haunt: to visit or inhabit as a ghost
48. Hover: to move to and fro near a place
49. Humane: marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration
for humans or animals
50. Idle: lacking worth or basis
51. Ignorance: the state or fact of being ignorant: lack of
knowledge, education, or awareness
52. Immortal: exempt from death
53. Impact: an impinging or striking especially of one body
against another
54. Improper: not suited to the circumstances, design, or end
55. Inferior: of little or less importance, value, or merit
56. Replay: to play again or over
57. Invade: to enter for conquest or plunder
58. Leash: something that restrains: the state of being
restrained
59. Legendary: WELL-KNOWN, FAMOUS 60. Lenient
61. Loiter: to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses
62. Luminous: emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or
glowing light
63. Maintain: to keep in an existing state (as of repair,
efficiency, or validity): preserve from failure or decline
64. Maturity: having completed natural growth and development
65. Mere: being nothing more than
66. Modest: neither bold nor self-assertive
67. Mortal: subject to death
68. Motive: something (such as a need or desire) that causes a
person to act
69. Reinterpret: to give a new or different interpretation to
70. National: belonging to or maintained by the federal
government
71. Notorious: generally known and talked of
72. Obligation: something (such as a formal contract, a promise,
or the demands of conscience or custom) that obligates one to a
course of action
73. Obsolete: no longer in use or no longer useful

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74. Obstinate: stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or
course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion
75. Offend: to violate a law or rule, do wrong
76. Optional: involving an option
77. Originality: the quality or state of being original
78. Overture: something introductory
79. Phase: a particular appearance or state in a regularly
recurring cycle of changes
80. Placid: serenely free of interruption or disturbance
81. Planetary: having a motion like that of a planet
82. Porcelain: a hard, fine-grained, sonorous, nonporous, and
usually translucent and white ceramic ware
83. Principally: of, relating to, or constituting principal or a
principal
84. Distortion: the act of twisting or altering something out of
its true, natural, or original state
85. Reality: the quality or state of being real
86. Recoil: to fall back under pressure
87. Resolve: to deal with successfully: clear up
88. Satellite: a celestial body orbiting another of larger size
89. Signify: to be a sign of
90. Spontaneous: proceeding from natural feeling
or native tendency without external constraint
91. Stellar: of or relating to the stars
92. Subtle: difficult to understand or perceive
93. Supervise: to be in charge of
94. Technique: the manner in which technical details are treated
(as by a writer) or basic physical movements are used (as by a
dancer)
95. Threshold: the plank, stone, or piece of timber that lies
under a door
96. Tiresome: wearisome, tedious
97. Tranquil: free from agitation of mind or spirit
98. Velocity: quickness of motion: speed
99. Judicial: of or relating to a judgment, the function of
judging, the administration of justice, or the judiciary
100. Romantic: consisting of or resembling a romance

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